Raziel_kain

I need major help and at my whits end..I have a WD My Book Essential 2TB external Hard drive. Recently having trying to plug it in to my Vista laptop it just won't read it.. the Hard drive lights up and clicks and whirls but it will not be read by Laptop. every time i try to access my computer, laptop just freezes and locks up and won't respond until i disconnect HD... If I plug it in to my XP desktop it does pick up HD and it comes up as "Local Disk (G)" but when i try to access it there is nothing on there, looking at properties of drive it says it's a "Raw" drive (Previously a FAT32) and there is no bytes on used or unused... i can't format it and when i do a check disk is does it in a micro second as if there is nothing on the drive to check,, I need help as this has all my photos on it and i can't lose them... worse case is that I'm able to format drive and then do a file recovery on it but at the moment i can't even format it PLEASE HELP I will be extremely grateful for any advice